Which best describes the south in the years leading up to the civil war?
a) largely agrarian, with slave owners as a minority
b) largely urban, with the majority of families owning slaves
c) largely agrarian, with the majority of families owning slaves
d) largely urban, with slave owners as a minority

name two ways organisms join a population and two ways organisms leave a population. two ways organisms join a population are birth rate and immigration. two ways they leave are death rate and emigration.

explanation:

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.